There's more good news/bad news irony for Hanson: "I got a call the other day to supervise someone else's pilot because I'm a procedural guy. Now I'll have to break in as a soft writer again."

Even more ironic is his transition from Canadian television to American. "Part of me is very cranky that I felt I had to go the States to reach a larger Canadian audience. The Canadian audience on Judging Amy or Bones is higher than any Canadian show I worked on, and they were some successful Canadian shows. I don't know who to aim that crankiness at, that I had to become an ex-pat, to live in LA, to reach a Canadian audience. I don't understand it at all." He didn't leave it at the philosophical answer, though, ending on the practical: "But they pay more down in LA. You do make a lot more money."

Confessing to some homesickness while in the spectacular mountain setting of Banff, Hanson responded to a question about whether he'd return to Canada with: "They're going to be done with me pretty soon. You know how the States is. One day your phone just stops ringing. I don't want to make it sound like I'd only come back to Canada when they stop calling. I'll come back to Canada when it stops being fun there."

For now, he sounds like he's having fun, and his tendency to go off-message certainly made his festival session a lot of fun.